[Music] To see is to understand. So the more we see of a cell, then the better we understand it.
All fields within mathematics use the same approach. We recognize a problem, we analyze
it and then we study the resulting theory. The battery is key to more efficient and
more climate friendly energy transition and mobility transition. We are studying,
what makes religion the motor of political or social change from antiquity to the present
day. We see, that about one in six couples are infertile and the reason
for the infertility lies just as often with the man as with the
woman. We make biological samples visible.
We use state-of-the-art cryoEM technology. We can enlarge them to one ten-millionth of a millimetre.
Every part in mathematics has its own language. We network between fields like geometry,
algebra, analysis and their applications to find answers to fundamental questions.
Lithium-ion batteries are used everywhere and by everybody. We not only deploy them in electric
vehicles, they are also found in smartphones and laptops. We need to address material and
resource diversity and develop sustainable supply chain. For many of these men actually their semen
analysis looks completely normal, they have sperm, enough of them, they swim, they look normal, but yet
they're infertile. And what we found when we look closer at them, actually, we see that
the sperm are unable to penetrate the eggs coat on their own and this leads to their infertility.
Why do people pray to a God and why do they use war for defending their faith, and why do
they give unconditional help to each other. Today we face, in fact, great challenges. To find answers
to the big questions, we sometimes have to do research in the smallest areas to the atomic
level. This enables us, for example, to understand how diseases arise and most importantly, how they
can be cured. Together with chemists, biologists, physicists and engineers, we are
working on recycling and reusage of batteries and its components. New findings in mathematics
are not standalone results, they often lead the way to unexpected breakthroughs in other branches
of science. So we've developed a test which can identify very rapidly this type of infertility,
that some men suffer. A test which can potentially be used all over the world. Mobility
transition and energy transition belong to the so-called mega challenges. We can only overcome
them by working together in research alliances: nationally and internationally. The range
of research, being carried out at the University of Münster is really enormous. Every answer leads
to new research questions and every research question needs clever minds to work on solutions.
[Music]